Show california PETROLEUM NOW MAKING FUR FLY according to the word that comes from wyoming the launched california petroleum company is is making newly the fur fly in the labarge field A representative of the kemmerer gazette has been making a roundup round up of the field his findings and among other on the he be recounted reported the situation thus things of superintendent direction scores of men under tinder the anderson of the lynch cannon construction company have foundations for four of the dozen buildings already laid concrete of that will that will form the central group of the california petroleum house executives and employees company main warehouse feet is already one building the completed when completed will occupy the the group of buildings bene of the wyomah immediately west of the camp ground of section 34 and will include quarters facial near the center for employees and e executives the construction is aimed for of f direction 0 at present and production needed for drilling will be employees that bunk houses and dining first buildings lings to be erected are house the will be the erection of genera general I 1 club next room the whole will cover an and quarters for the executives acres and will lie between what forty area of approximately is known locally as leydecker nos 1 and 2 or just west of th the e center line of section 34 enormous facilities to be provided two tanks that will form the nucleus of the field lank farm will be of not less than barrels capacity each and may be as large as barrels each according to the information that reaches the gazette these tanks will be erected on the newlon property on section 3 immediately south of the wyomah beneficial and on property also acquired by the californians the tank farm will adjoin the newlon townsite and probably indicates the ce center anter of production dis distribution tribu tion I 1 ditching for a water pipeline actual work has fias been started on the water pipeline and ditch of a depth of six feet has progressed for several hundred feet present orders from the cal pet call for a continuation of the present ditch for three miles which will include the wyomah on the north to the fawcett on the south report has it that ditching machinery has been ordered and that more rapid work may be in order californians pre predominate dominate in the field aside from the development programs outlined by the local companies californians appear to have grabbed the field with the cal pet leading in the matter of expenditures and the fawcett interests inaugurating a more extensive campaign the foregoing is correct when it is understood that the cal pet controls the southwestern machinery company a subsidiary that owns the patents of the latest refining process and that cal pet is pledged to expend better than a half mill million ion dollars labarge looms as the center of west wyoming oil development one local supply concern of repute is known to have received requests for bids on rig timbers for several rigs the recommendation of geologists already proved to be trustworthy s seems beems to have justified the expenditure of millions on the part of successful california operators the labarge field apparently is an accepted productive area with its production operators of note are expending vast sums |